英语词汇“patter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	patter
释义	pat·ter I. \ˈpad.ə(r), -atə-\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English patren, patern, from paternoster *transitive verb* 1. : to say or repeat in a rapid or mechanical manner : mutter < patter the jargon of two different tribes — F.L.Lucas > 2. : to speak glibly < they're college-reared and can patter languages — John Buchan > *intransitive verb* 1. : to recite paternosters or other prayers rapidly, mechanically, or perfunctorily < I'd be pattering away with my tongue, in church, like all the rest — Lord Dunsany > 2. : to talk glibly and volubly usually without close attention to sense : chatter gibberish, jargon, or cant < pattered, all smiles, through a soft-voiced colorless recital of events — Lester Atwell > 3. : to speak or sing the rapid-fire words of a theatrical patter speech or song 4. : to issue (as words) in staccato fashion < a poem lightly pattering into his ear — Amy Lowell > < jokes … pattered regularly from variety comedians — Anthony Glyn > II. noun (-s) 1. : a specialized lingo : cant < the sociologist's sometimes useful patter — Dwight Macdonald > < the patter of science — Ellen Glasgow > < ad-libbing a sales patter — Fortune > < the silly pseudosophisticated patter of the most unpleasant smart people — J.C.Powys > sometimes : the jargon of thieves or other criminals 2. : the spiel of a street hawker or of a circus barker 3. : empty chattering talk : gabble < the incessant patter of the argument — F.R.Leavis > < nothing's too petty for her to make controversial patter of — Rex Ingamells > < table talk couched in cliché and patter — H.R.Warfel > 4. a. : the rapid-fire talk of a comedian or the talk with which any of various performers accompanies his routine b. : the words of a comic or musical comedy song or of a rapidly spoken usually humorous monologue introduced into such a song c. : metrical lines often of nonsense interpolated by a western square dance caller to fill in between commands to the dancers III. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: freq. of pat (II) *intransitive verb* 1. : to strike, pat, or tap rapidly usually so as to make quick light sounds < on the shingled roof the rain was pattering like a multitude of tiny feet — Ellen Glasgow > 2. : to run with short quick light-sounding steps < pattered softly down the stairs — Marcia Davenport > *transitive verb* : to cause to patter IV. noun (-s) : a quick succession of slight sounds or pats < the patter of rain > < the patter of little feet >
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